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From: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
To: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH 18/18] bcache: add code comments for journal_read_bucket()
Date: Tue,  4 Jun 2019 23:53:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190604155330.107927-3-colyli@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190604155330.107927-1-colyli@suse.de>

This patch adds more code comments in journal_read_bucket(), this is an
effort to make the code to be more understandable.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
---
 drivers/md/bcache/journal.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c b/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c
index d4b9817f2237..d3f2331fc559 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c
@@ -100,6 +100,20 @@ reread:		left = ca->sb.bucket_size - offset;
 
 			blocks = set_blocks(j, block_bytes(ca->set));
 
+			/*
+			 * Nodes in 'list' are in linear increasing order of
+			 * i->j.seq, the node on head has the smallest (oldest)
+			 * journal seq, the node on tail has the biggest
+			 * (latest) journal seq.
+			 */
+
+			/*
+			 * Check from the oldest jset for last_seq. If
+			 * i->j.seq < j->last_seq, it means the oldest jset
+			 * in list is expired and useless, remove it from
+			 * this list. Otherwise, j is a condidate jset for
+			 * further following checks.
+			 */
 			while (!list_empty(list)) {
 				i = list_first_entry(list,
 					struct journal_replay, list);
@@ -109,13 +123,22 @@ reread:		left = ca->sb.bucket_size - offset;
 				kfree(i);
 			}
 
+			/* iterate list in reverse order (from latest jset) */
 			list_for_each_entry_reverse(i, list, list) {
 				if (j->seq == i->j.seq)
 					goto next_set;
 
+				/*
+				 * if j->seq is less than any i->j.last_seq
+				 * in list, j is an expired and useless jset.
+				 */
 				if (j->seq < i->j.last_seq)
 					goto next_set;
 
+				/*
+				 * 'where' points to first jset in list which
+				 * is elder then j.
+				 */
 				if (j->seq > i->j.seq) {
 					where = &i->list;
 					goto add;
@@ -129,6 +152,7 @@ reread:		left = ca->sb.bucket_size - offset;
 			if (!i)
 				return -ENOMEM;
 			memcpy(&i->j, j, bytes);
+			/* Add to the location after 'where' points to */
 			list_add(&i->list, where);
 			ret = 1;
 
-- 
2.16.4


      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-04 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-04 15:16 [PATCH 00/15] bcache fixes before Linux v5.3 Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 01/15] Revert "bcache: set CACHE_SET_IO_DISABLE in bch_cached_dev_error()" Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 02/15] bcache: avoid flushing btree node in cache_set_flush() if io disabled Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 03/15] bcache: ignore read-ahead request failure on backing device Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 04/15] bcache: add io error counting in write_bdev_super_endio() Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 05/15] bcache: remove "XXX:" comment line from run_cache_set() Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 06/15] bcache: remove unnecessary prefetch() in bset_search_tree() Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 07/15] bcache: use sysfs_match_string() instead of __sysfs_match_string() Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 08/15] bcache: add return value check to bch_cached_dev_run() Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 09/15] bcache: remove unncessary code in bch_btree_keys_init() Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 10/15] bcache: check CACHE_SET_IO_DISABLE in allocator code Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 11/15] bcache: check CACHE_SET_IO_DISABLE bit in bch_journal() Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 12/15] bcache: more detailed error message to bcache_device_link() Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 13/15] bcache: add more error message in bch_cached_dev_attach() Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 14/15] bcache: shrink btree node cache after bch_btree_check() Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:16 ` [PATCH 15/15] bcache: improve error message in bch_cached_dev_run() Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:53 ` [PATCH 16/18] bcache: only set BCACHE_DEV_WB_RUNNING when cached device attached Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:53   ` [PATCH 17/18] bcache: make bset_search_tree() be more understandable Coly Li
2019-06-05  5:43     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05  5:45       ` Coly Li
2019-06-04 15:53   ` Coly Li [this message]

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